On Friday April 04 2014 08:35:19 Eric A. Borisch wrote:

> Here's an example with a locally compiled (and therefore run through pbzip2
> as that is how I have MP set) MacPorts archive.

Hmmm, how have you configured things?

> real 0m12.084s
> user 0m45.713s
> sys 0m0.534s

> real 0m37.223s
> user 0m36.872s
> sys 0m0.343s

> Note the user time is up (no free lunch; there is some overhead) but real
> or "wall" time is down by a factor of 3. (I have a 4 core 2007 machine.)

Depends on how it's measured; it could also reflect the number of CPUs used 
(i.e. correspond to the CPU%, 300% if you're indeed using 3 cores with complete 
efficiency) :)
 
R
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